Title
2-Step Scalar Deadzone Quantization for Bitplane Image Coding
Abstract
Modern lossy image coding systems generate a quality progressive codestream that, truncated at increasing rates, produces an image with decreasing distortion. Quality progressivity is commonly provided by an embedded quantizer that employs uniform scalar deadzone quantization (USDQ) together with a bitplane coding strategy. This paper introduces a 2-step scalar deadzone quantization (2SDQ) scheme that achieves same coding performance as that of USDQ while reducing the coding passes and the emitted symbols of the bitplane coding engine. This serves to reduce the computational costs of the codec and/or to code high dynamic range images. The main insights behind 2SDQ are the use of two quantization step sizes that approximate wavelet coefficients with more or less precision depending on their density, and a rate-distortion optimization technique that adjusts the distortion decreases produced when coding 2SDQ indexes. The integration of 2SDQ in current codecs is straightforward. The applicability and efficiency of 2SDQ are demonstrated within the framework of JPEG2000.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TIP.2013.2277801
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
rate distortion theory,codecs
Lossy compression,Pattern recognition,Coding tree unit,Sub-band coding,Artificial intelligence,JPEG 2000,Quantization (signal processing),Rate–distortion theory,Distortion,Mathematics,Variable-length code
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
12
1941-0042
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
24
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesc Auli-Llinas14210.68